Hi Justin Thanks for explanation. But I am a bit confused because I am new to git. When I check out release-4-6 branch, the source code should be the same as the one in tarball from Gromacs website, right? When I run git status I get # On branch release-4-6 nothing to commit (working directory clean), I believe that means I have the released version of the code.
The reason I am doing this is that I want to have just one directory for gromacs with subdirectories for its src, build and binaries. And in future, instead of downloading new releases, I want to just pull the changes and re-build. Also, I plan to clone the same src directory on my different machines, so that I can have the same version on all machines. Hopefully, in the future I may start doing some modifications here n there. Thanks Sikandar On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalem...@vt.edu> wrote: > > > On 4/30/13 8:28 PM, Sikandar Mashayak wrote: > >> Thanks Justin. >> >> I replaced release-4-5-patches with release-4-6 while checking out the >> branch. >> When I installed it and checked the version string I get VERSION >> 4.6.2-dev-20130429-d13fc48. >> Does that mean I got the version which is still under development and not >> stable and tested? >> Should I be concerned using it to do a production run? >> >> > We generally discourage anyone from doing production work with anything > that's not an official release. Anything you pull from the git repo is a > work in progress. Periodic releases are generated when the code is > believed to be production-ready. We do code review and build testing and > each patch is as reliable as we believe it to be :) > > The reference to a "stable branch" is probably a bit misleading, but the > master branch is currently undergoing large-scale changes, leaving it > perhaps a bit more "unstable" than release-4-6. The release-4-6 branch is > the one from which the development team is producing actual releases. > > If you want the latest version, just download the 4.6.1 tarball from the > Gromacs website. Version 4.6.2 should be out fairly soon, but there are > some issues that are still being cleaned up. > > > -Justin > > -- > ==============================**========== > > Justin A. Lemkul, Ph.D. > Research Scientist > Department of Biochemistry > Virginia Tech > Blacksburg, VA > jalemkul[at]vt.edu | (540) 231-9080 > http://www.bevanlab.biochem.**vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin<http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin> > > ==============================**========== > -- > gmx-users mailing list gmx-users@gromacs.org > http://lists.gromacs.org/**mailman/listinfo/gmx-users<http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users> > * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/** > Support/Mailing_Lists/Search<http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search>before > posting! > * Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the www > interface or send it to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. > * Can't post? Read > http://www.gromacs.org/**Support/Mailing_Lists<http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists> > -- gmx-users mailing list gmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search before posting! * Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the www interface or send it to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists